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@joewootan wrote:

I always thought that was not anything I could use since I lived in the property when I made those improvements.


You would add the cost of those improvements to your cost basis to arrive at your adjusted basis in the property.

 

Upon conversion to rental use, you would then compare that adjusted basis to the fair market value on the date of conversion and use the lesser figure as your basis for depreciation.